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When Luca Brecel first appeared at the World Snooker Championship 11 years ago, as an extravagantly talented 17-year-old, he made a bold prediction, said Aaron Bower in The Guardian. By the age of 19, the Belgian said, he would be crowned world champion. The prophecy didn’t materialise: until three weeks…

The tennis star opened the Tesla app on his smartphone and started tracking the stolen vehicle, as well as limiting its top speed to 50 miles per hour.

Racial disparities in maternal death rates in Britain have been condemned as as “nothing short of a scandal”, after an MPs’ report warned that black women are nearly four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women.

DIRECT ancestors of King Charles III and the royal family purchased and exploited slaves on plantations in Virginia, new research has revealed.

From stories about the US opioid crisis, to novels set in 16th century Italy, this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has something for everyone

Global military expenditure rose to $2.4trn in 2022, increasing by 3.7% year-on-year to hit a record high.

NatWest Group, the John Lewis Partnership, Unilever, BMW and Virgin Media O2 are among the latest UK businesses to cancel their involvement with the CBI

Estimates of King Charles’s private wealth vary widely. The Sunday Times Rich List team put it at £600m this year, while a Guardian investigation concluded he was worth closer to £1.8bn (it counted the Duchy of Lancaster as to some extent a private asset). 

FTSE 100 firms Aviva and Phoenix pulled membership after latest in raft of misconduct allegations facing the CBI